Delineating Boundaries for Imprecise Regions

In geographic information retrieval users use names of geographic regions that do not have a well-defined boundary, like Southern France. We present two approaches to compute reasonable boundaries of such regions, based on evidence of points that are likely to lie inside or outside this region.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: ESA
• Authors: Iris Reinbacher, Marc Benkert, Marc J. van Kreveld, Joseph S. B. Mitchell, Alexander Wolff
• Keywords: ESA 2005, Geographic Information Retrieval, Geographic Regions, Reasonable Boundaries